And, on my opening my mouth, he made me take the roll as food.

And he said to me, Son of man, go now to the children of Israel, and say my words to them.

Not to a number of peoples whose talk is strange and whose language is hard and whose words are not clear to you. Truly, if I sent you to them they would give ear to you.

See, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your brow hard against their brows.

Then he said to me, Son of man, take into your heart all my words which I am about to say to you, and let your ears be open to them.

Then I was lifted up by the wind, and at my back the sound of a great rushing came to my ears when the glory of the Lord was lifted up from his place.

And the wind, lifting me up, took me away: and I went in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of the Lord was strong on me.

And at the end of seven days, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

When I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly be your fate and you give him no word of it and say nothing to make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his evil way, so that he may be safe that same evil man will come to death in his evil-doing but I will make you responsible for his blood.

Again, when an upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, and I put a cause of falling in his way, death will overtake him: because you have given him no word of his danger, death will overtake him in his evil-doing, and there will be no memory of the upright acts which he has done but I will make you responsible for his blood.

And the hand of the Lord was on me there and he said, Get up and go out into the valley and there I will have talk with you.

Then the spirit came into me and put me on my feet and he had talk with me and said to me, Go and keep yourself shut up inside your house.

And I will make your tongue fixed to the roof of your mouth, so that you have no voice and may not make protests to them: for they are an uncontrolled people.

And make an attack on it, shutting it in, building strong places against it, and making high an earthwork against it and put up tents against it, placing engines all round it for smashing down its walls.

Then, stretching yourself out on your left side, take the sin of the children of Israel on yourself: for as long as you are stretched out, so long will the sin of the children of Israel be on you.

And when these days are ended, turning on your right side, you are to take on yourself the sin of the children of Judah: forty days, a day for a year, I have had it fixed for you.

And see, I will put bands on you and you will be stretched out without turning from one side to the other till the days of your attack are ended.

And you are to take your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: you are to take it at regular times.

And let your food be barley cakes, cooking it before their eyes with the waste which comes out of a man.

Then I said, Ah, Lord! see, my soul has never been unclean, and I have never taken as my food anything which has come to a natural death or has been broken by beasts, from the time when I was young even till now no disgusting flesh has ever come into my mouth.

And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:

Where they put him on the cross with two others, one on this side and one on that, and Jesus in the middle.

The writing was seen by a number of the Jews, for the place where Jesus was put to death on the cross was near the town and the writing was in Hebrew and Latin and Greek.

But Pilate made answer, What I have put in writing will not be changed.

So they said among themselves, Let this not be cut up, but let us put it to the decision of chance and see who gets it. (They did this so that the Writings might come true, which say, They made a distribution of my clothing among them, and my coat they put to the decision of chance.) This was what the men of the army did.

So when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple who was dear to him, he said to his mother, Mother, there is your son!

After this, being conscious that all things had now been done so that the Writings might come true, Jesus said, Give me water.

So when Jesus had taken the wine he said, All is done. And with his head bent he gave up his spirit.

So the men of the army came, and the legs of the first were broken and then of the other who was put to death on the cross with Jesus:

But one of the men made a wound in his side with a spear, and straight away there came out blood and water.

These things came about so that the Writings might be true, No bone of his body will be broken.

After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, made a request to Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate said he might do so. So he went and took away his body.

Then they took the body of Jesus, folding linen about it with the spices, as is the way of the Jews when they put the dead to rest.

So they put Jesus there, because it was the Jews' day of getting ready for the Passover, and the place was near.